Engineering Manager, WalletConnect

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years managing engineers; you were a strong engineer first, and you're technically credible with senior ICs
• Technical depth in building and operating distributed systems at scale; hands-on when needed, whether that's reviewing code, architecture, or technical documents
• A track record of building, growing, and retaining high-performing teams, and of genuinely caring about the people on them
• Experience leading remote-first, distributed teams
• Experience owning delivery of business-critical services where accuracy and reliability are paramount: trading, treasury, exchange, or financial infrastructure strongly preferred
• Structured and disciplined planning: you turn ambiguous goals into a predictable delivery cadence and hit the commitments you make
• Pragmatic decision-making: you right-size solutions, balance speed and rigor deliberately, and avoid over-engineering
• Honest, charismatic communication and natural mediation: you give and receive direct feedback with kindness, simplify complex topics for non-engineers, and turn disagreement into alignment
• Self-aware, context-aware, and coachable, with strong instincts; a self-starter who owns their work and is motivated by quality and innovation, not just output

Desirable

• This Engineering Manager will report to our CTO to help WalletConnect build and scale the Financial Services engineering team: the team behind the value-added services packaged on top of the WalletConnect Network, spanning DeFi access, treasury management, and security & compliance
• You'll lead a cross-functional squad of engineers building systems where accuracy and reliability are paramount
• You'll be accountable for the squad's delivery and technical outcomes: shaping the roadmap with your Product partner, keeping a high bar for quality and velocity, and holding the team to WalletConnect's engineering standards
• We believe great engineering managers were strong engineers first, and never stopped thinking like one
• This is not primarily a hands-on coding role, but you'll have the technical depth to input on, understand, and challenge engineering decisions, and to get hands-on (in code, reviews, or design docs) when it helps, without becoming the team's bottleneck
• Above all, you'll be the person who makes the team better: hiring well, coaching honestly, mediating clearly, protecting focus, and caring about the humans doing the work
• Run the squad's operating rhythm (planning, stand ups, and retros) in close partnership with your Product Manager, so delivery is structured, disciplined, and predictable
• Set team OKRs with Product, and translate company goals and strategic priorities into what they mean for the squad
• Hold the team accountable to its goals, and clear blockers out of its way
• Hold regular 1:1s with every engineer; coach across seniority levels with honest, kind feedback, and build career paths people actually follow
• Run fair performance reviews, and address underperformance early and directly, with kindness
• Be a strong technical voice: review designs and architecture, challenge trade-offs pragmatically, and foster a culture of high-quality code
• Own reliability outcomes for your squad's services: SLOs and error budgets, alert quality, a healthy on-call rotation, and blameless incident reviews that are hard on problems, not on people
• Make pragmatic trade-off calls between roadmap, tech debt, and keep-the-lights-on work, and explain the "why" clearly to engineers and non-engineers alike
• Align and mediate across Product, Design, other squads, and leadership, protecting the team's focus and surfacing risks and problems early
• Partner with the People team on hiring: define what great looks like, run calibrated interviews, and close candidates who raise the bar; own their onboarding and time-to-productivity
• Read the room and act early (on team health, delivery risk, or design drift), using data where it exists and sound judgment where it doesn't